DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. SWC-DB

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2016

2013

2019

2020

Current release

1703

8.11.4, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

dynamic typing

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

LDAP

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

cell division

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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